Born the son of a blacksmith and apprenticed to a bookbinder at an early age, Michael Faraday seemed destined for a modest life as an artisan. But driven by an unquenchable curiosity for knowledge,... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Roberta Baxer's MICHAEL FARADAY AND THE NATURE OF ELECTRICITY offers some 140 pages of biographical facts about the discoverer of electro-magnetism. Michael Faraday was born the son of a blacksmith and was apprenticed to a bookbinder at an early age, but developed a passion for science that led him to a job as a scientist's assistant.
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